An extended evaluation of the readability of tapered, animated, and textured directed-edge representations in node-link graphs

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium 2011, PacificVis 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 195-202

  Holten, Danny ^a   Isenberg, Petra ^b   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^a   Fekete, Jean Daniel ^b  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

H.1.2 Models and Principles : User Machine SystemsHuman Information Processing; H.5.2 Information Interfaces and Presentation : User InterfacesEvaluation Methodology; I.3.3 Computer Graphics : Picture Image GenerationLine and Curve Generation

Indexed keywords

BEST-PRACTICES; DIRECTED GRAPHS; DIRECTED LINKS; EDGE DESIGNS; H.5.2 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]; I.3.3 [COMPUTER GRAPHICS]: PICTURE/IMAGE GENERATIONLINE AND CURVE GENERATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NODE-LINK DIAGRAMS; PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATION; USER FEEDBACK;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA PROCESSING; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); VISUALIZATION;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 79955688419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2011.5742390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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